Except for the animal's breathing, the world was very quiet.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | [The Woman ] | 1 |
| II | [Some Men ] | 7 |
| III | [The Lodger Next Door ] | 17 |
| IV | [A Revelation ] | 31 |
| V | [The Clergy of Yavapai ] | 46 |
| VI | [At the Circle A ] | 56 |
| VII | [Tongues Wag ] | 68 |
| VIII | [A Heart Speaks ] | 84 |
| IX | [Lytton's Nemesis ] | 102 |
| X | [Whom God Hath Joined ] | 119 |
| XI | [The Story of Abe ] | 131 |
| XII | [The Runaway ] | 147 |
| XIII | [The Scourging ] | 163 |
| XIV | [The Woman on Horseback ] | 187 |
| XV | [Her Lord and Master ] | 204 |
| XVI | [The Message on the Saddle ] | 223 |
| XVII | [The End of the Vigil ] | 239 |
| XVIII | [The Fight ] | 255 |
| XIX | [The Trails Unite ] | 278 |
BRUCE OF THE CIRCLE A
CHAPTER I
THE WOMAN
Daylight and the Prescott-Ph[oe]nix train were going from Yavapai. Fifty paces from the box of a station a woman stood alone beside the track, bag in hand, watching the three red lights of the observation platform dwindle to a ruby unit far down the clicking ribbons of steel. As she watched, she felt herself becoming lost in the spaciousness, the silence of an Arizona evening.